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  • How Does The Branch Bear Fruit? Not By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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    "How does the branch bear fruit? Not by incessant effort for sunshine and air, not by vain strugglesIt simply abides in the vine, in silent and undisturbed union, and blossoms and fruit appear as of spontaneous growth. How then shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that ...read more

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  • Marriage Seminar  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2007
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    MARRIAGE SEMINAR While attending a Marriage Seminar dealing with communication, Tom and his wife Grace listened to the instructor, "It is essential that husbands and wives know each other’s likes and dislikes." He addressed the man, "Can you name your wife’s favorite ...read more

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  • Pastor Tim Keller, Ministries Of Mercy, 227: "It ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Aug 13, 2008
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    Pastor Tim Keller, Ministries of Mercy, 227: “It should be obvious how this applies to our work with the needy. Neither the ‘liberal’ approach (no conditions on aid to the needy) nor the ‘conservative’ approach (only helping the deserving poor) understand grace. Instead, our mercy ministry must ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • What God Has ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 20, 2009
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    What God Has Promised God hath not promised Skies always blue Flower-strewn pathways All our lives through. God hath not promised Sun without rain Joy without sorrow Peace without pain. But God hath promise Strength for the day Rest for the labor Light for the way; ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Many People Find Doing God's Will Hard. Rosa ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 18, 2007
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    Many people find doing God’s will hard. Rosa Parks found it hard when she was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man. It is difficult to imagine such an arrest taking place today, just a little over 50 years later. But that is because her simple act of ...read more

    Denomination: Methodist

  • Winston Churchill's Ever Patient Wife Told Him ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    Winston Churchill’s ever patient wife told him that him that loosing the election immediately after the war might be a blessing in disguise. His response was ’at the moment its certainly very well disguised’ But a few months later saw it differently ’I feel a great sense of relief...others having ...read more

  • A Nine Year Old Girl Came Into The Room Of Her ...

    Contributed by Mark Wood on Feb 18, 2006
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    A nine year old girl came into the room of her very sick mother. Thinking her mother was asleep the little girl unfolded the blanket and covered her mother up. The mother said, It was not long ago that I was Covering you up and taking care of you. This little girl paused and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • The Chinese Character For "Righteousness" Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The Chinese character for "righteousness" is most interesting. It is composed of two separate characters one standing for a lamb, the other for me. When "lamb" is placed directly above "me," a new character "righteousness" is formed. This is a helpful picture of the grace of God. Between me, the ...read more

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  • Note, Praying Friends Are Valuable Friends; It ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Aug 9, 2008
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    "Note, Praying friends are valuable friends; it is good to have an intimacy with and an interest in those that have fellowship with God and an interest at the throne of grace; and it well becomes the greatest and best of men to desire the assistance of the prayers of others for them. St. Paul often ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

  • Some Years Ago I Was In A Discussion With A ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 3, 2010
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    Some years ago I was in a discussion with a member of the so-called Unity Church of Christianity. He said he believed the same thing I did - Unity - Jesus is the Way-Shower. We follow His example of a good life. Christianity – Jesus is the Way to God. Jesus gives us new life by dying for our ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • It's Reported That A Preacher In Redrock, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 14, 2001
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    It’s reported that a preacher in Redrock, Mississippi prayed this sermon: “Oh Lord, give Thy servant this mornin’ the eyes of the eagle and the wisdom of the owl; connect his soul with the gospel telephone in the central skies; ‘luminate his brow with the Sun of heaven; possess his mind with love ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Brenda Goodine Shares A Story About Her Friend ...  PRO

    Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Nov 7, 2001
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    Brenda Goodine shares a story about her friend who decided to talk to her bright four-year-old son, Benji, about receiving Christ. “Benji,” she asked quietly, “would you like to have Jesus in your heart?” Benji thought for a few minutes and then rolling his blue eyes answered, “No. I don’t think I ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • When A Big Time Professional Athlete (Like Shaq ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 20, 2001
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    When a big time professional athlete (like Shaq or Jordan) commits to a team, he signs a contract which binds him to the team. Following this action there is usually a press confrence to announce the newly formed allegiance. They make the announcement, someone from the organization holds up a ...read more

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  • Choose Wisely  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
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    CHOOSE WISELY There are many who believe that hell is not a literal place prepared for those who reject God. Part of the refusal to believe this comes from the way Hell has been represented to us. It’s become a cartoon of sorts. There is a Far Side cartoon showing the devil (complete with a ...read more

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  • We Must Feel Toward Our People As A Father ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
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    "We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to ...read more

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  • One Man Once Said These Words "I Will Tell You ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 26, 2007
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    One man once said these words “I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, ...read more

    Denomination: Baptist

  • There Is A Story About A Man Who Had To Cross A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There is a story about a man who had to cross a wide river on the ice. He was afraid it might be too thin, so he began to crawl on his hand and knees in great terror. He thought he might fall through at any moment. Just as he neared the opposite shore, all exhausted, another man glided past him ...read more

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  • John Wesley - Heart Strangely Warmed

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    John Wesley - Heart Strangely Warmed In May of 1738, John Wesley wrote in his journal: "In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate.Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change ...read more

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  • How They Knew God's Love

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 9, 2007
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    “How They Knew God’s Love” We tried to visit the lepers at least once a month, when they gathered out on the grass, and we went over what they had learned and sought to make clear the way of salvation by the use of Gospel posters. Sometimes we asked them questions, to see if they really ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian Church

  • The Historic Christian Teaching Holds That ...  PRO

    Contributed by C Jordan on Sep 4, 2008
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    "The historic Christian teaching holds that national Israel was a type or a forerunner of the church, and that the church replaced Israel on the day of Pentecost... God has but one plan of salvation. There is also only one body of God. This body is made up of every born again individual from both ...read more

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    Denomination: *other